Editing Irion County, Texas (section)

==Politics==
As of 2017, only Irion County among those in Texas had stated it would refuse to issue licenses to same-sex couples. Many counties started issuing same-sex marriage licenses within hours of the ''Obergefell'' ruling on June 26, 2015, while others awaited direction from state officials, local county attorney advice, or issuance of corrected state marriage license forms. Irion County adopted this reason for not issuing licenses. No marriage applications have yet been made by same-sex couples in Irion County.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/texas-senate-votes-to-allow-county-clerks-to-refuse-issuing-same-sex-marriage-permits-9362348|title=Texas Senate Approves Recusals For County Clerks Opposed to Same-Sex Marriage|work=Dallas Observer|last=Young|first=Stephen|date=April 12, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://sanangelolive.com/news/politics/2015-07-09/last-stand-against-gay-marriage-irion-county-texas|title=The Last Stand Against Gay Marriage in Irion County, Texas|work=sanangelolive.com|date=July 9, 2015|last=Reinhard|first=Chelsea}}</ref> Irion County was the sole holdout in Texas, with reports that the situation was still in effect two years later.<ref name="Ballotpedia">{{cite web|title=Local government responses to Obergefell v. Hodges|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Local_government_responses_to_Obergefell_v._Hodges#tab=Texas|website=ballotpedia.org|date=June 26, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/local-news/irion-county-clerk-cites-beliefs-constitution-in-not-issuing-samesex-marriage-licenses_60149342|title=Irion County clerk cites beliefs, constitution in not issuing same-sex marriage licenses|access-date=October 7, 2020|archive-date=October 31, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151031001248/http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/local-news/irion-county-clerk-cites-beliefs-constitution-in-not-issuing-samesex-marriage-licenses_60149342|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.advocate.com/marriage-equality/2016/2/18/watch-next-kim-davis-texas-clerk-molly-criner|title=WATCH: The Next 'Kim Davis:' Texas Clerk Molly Criner}}</ref> When Alabama replaced marriage licenses with marriage certificates and required that all counties issue them, Irion County became the only remaining county in the country that would not allow same-sex couples to marry. As of 2020, Irion County has a new county clerk who has stated she would issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Irion County Clerk|url=http://www.co.irion.tx.us/page/irion.County.Clerk}}</ref>

Irion County was one of four Texas counties [[Ross Perot]] won in the 1992 presidential election. Otherwise, the county, like most of rural Texas, is extremely Republican. It has not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since Texas native [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] won a statewide and national landslide in [[1964 United States presidential election|1964]].

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